I learn via Ainoa Castro of this useful online guide to Latin palaeography, put together by the Vatican library spotlight.vatlib.it/latin-paleog.... Any other suggestions for student-friendly palaeography welcome...

I always wonder - usually in vain - just how big auction houses determine provenance information. Thanks to the Epstein Files, we can see exactly how a seemingly rock-solid provenance was built on shifting sands for this Hercules. 🧵

📢 Calling all special collections oomfs! I’m doing a very informal survey of how different American universities staff their special collections reading rooms. If you’re willing to answer a few questions, please DM me! (You don’t need to work in the RR, you just need to know how the RR is run)

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

This looks an amazing (and very generously funded) opportunity for anyone looking to pursue a medieval literary PhD.

Anyone for SIXTEEN MILLION new records to search on Ancestry? Including for the first time ever, all of the wills from the Court of York, 1389-1858? Not just the indexes this time, but also new images of the Registers themselves?

It's great to see this article in The Conversation up now! Link in the first comment.

Call for Chapters: Minimal Computing for Social & Cultural Heritage Link to call: jamesosullivan.github.io/MinimalCompu... This collection will explore how minimal computing can be applied to social/cultural heritage. We welcome full chapters as well as shorter pieces. Funded @researchireland.ie

Earlier this month we were pleased to support a @thefnl.bsky.social briefing on how Acceptance in Lieu (AIL), Cultural Gifts Scheme (CGS) & private treaty sales could benefit institutions, depositors & donors. 📺 A recording of this event is now available to watch at youtu.be/c6knmsTll20

119 new transcriptions in the Mary Hamilton Papers, many AI-generated, all corrected and marked up by two human editors. David and Nuria are now checking the much-delayed refresh. See 'Converting Conversations' from the MHP, Pete Morris's blogpost(aiiamanchester.com/2025/10/09/c...). #18thC #langsky

Interested in Digital and Computational Humanities for your Master's? The University of Groningen (Netherlands) offers three masters at different levels, from humanities grads with no coding experience to aspiring NLP researchers. Strong interaction with a leading NLP group @gronlp.bsky.social 🧵

We’re funding research into #palaeography teaching in Scotland! See the job spec here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRA145/s...

📢Job alert! We’re looking for 3 new full-time graduate trainee Archives & Special Collections Assistants to join our innovative, user-focused engagement team. See more details and apply: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/archives... 🗓️Closing date: 16 April 2026

Computational paleography has become a key meeting ground for the humanities and computer science. We are delighted to offer workshop at this year’s #ICDAR2026 conference to showcase the latest developments in this dynamic field. CfP is open until 22 May!

Excellent opportunity!

13,000 ostraca! "Demotic script [is] roughly 60-75% of the material, while between 15 and 30% are in Greek. Smaller numbers appear in Hieratic script (about 1.5%), Hieroglyphic script (0.25%), Coptic (0.2%), and Arabic (0.1%)..." #Egyptology #ClassicsBlueSky english.ahram.org.eg/News/563811....

Want to read a watermark but there’s too much text on it? Then use the magic eraser. It’s really simple: you upload a photo and the image appears without the ink. #siteoftheweek

What a beautifully written, thought-provoking article. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

There’s an office in London that contains something critical to the security of the global internet — a bunch of swinging pendulums. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/ins...

Job vacancy: We are looking for an Acquisitions Editor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Apply now! de-gruyter.onlyfy.jobs/job/3dhjdvo3... #medievalsky #earlymodern

🚨 We're looking for a new Project Archivist 🚨The main objective of the project is to catalogue the papers of Harriet Harman. [Full time, 2 years fixed contract] The deadline for applications is 3 April 2026 with interviews planning to be on the 14 April 2026 buff.ly/mhMCz8E

CILIP & CILIP School Libraries Group continue supporting this school librarian member through this unprecedented and worrying situation

An anti-suffragette postcard from the early 1900s 'First she gets the vote, then she gets your wife!' #WomensHistoryMonth

This is an an article that I WISH so badly I had as a grad student so I would know where I was in the process and what the expectations were at every stage (by a now-colleague). This should be given to every student starting + finishing grad school www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Democrats: We want to fund housing, a living wage, education & healthcare for the American people. Republicans: Shut up losers, We don’t have the money. Also Republicans: 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Job Klaxon! Three great opportunities for up-and-coming postdocs at Newcastle www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

🚨FIXED TERM ARCHIVE JOB KLAXON🚨 We are looking for an experienced archivist to develop and implement a scoping project to re-catalogue and make available the York Archdiocesan Archive (6 months full time, or 12 months part time). Full details at the link: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/proj...

The preliminary program for the 2026 #IIIF Annual Conference is now available. See the program for our Showcase, conference days, workshops, and Birds of a Feather sessions here: conference2026.iiif.io/program/

A really interesting post on libraries and archives’ responses to AI.

Available Oslo PhD positions – heritage conservation, archaeological & paleoenvironmental geochemistry, & on the POLYCHROME project (concerning historical sources on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries) #jobfairy www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...

Oh my, I was once asked a similar question (about removing a goat from a library) in a JOB INTERVIEW. (I got the job…)

So excited to have Eyal Poleg from Hidden in Plain Sight @hips-project.bsky.social to come and talk to us at DH Research Group at Leeds @dcch-leeds.bsky.social on Wed, 18 March! 😍 All welcome to the **hybrid event**. Further info and registration: dcch.leeds.ac.uk/events/new-s... #bookhistory #dh

The Afterlives of John Dee's Books ✨ Five surviving volumes from the library of John Dee, once part of the largest private collection in Elizabethan England, are now held at Chetham’s Library. Discover the afterlives of John Dee's books in our blog ➡️ library.chethams.com/blog/the-aft...

We have an incredible new PhD placement opportunity to help support the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest, opening in October 2027. Learn more and apply through the link below! www.bl.uk/services/res...

It's been happening for at least a year, to many archives. www.glamelab.org/products/are...

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Any day on which I get to teach Kruger's "Claiming the Pardoner" essay is a good one. What an amazing, lucid, durable piece of criticism. Give it to a smart student with any interest whatsoever in queer theory, and they are ready to LOCK IN to medieval literature afterwards

Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org

Two new positions with the #ERC-BROKENSONG project at Maynooth University. The first position is for a Postdoctoral Researcher/Senior Postdoctoral Researcher to conduct analysis of the medieval Insular music corpus recovered, transcribed, and edited within the project. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

The second position with #ERC-BROKENSONG is for a Research assistant/Postdoctoral Researcher with experience in statistical image processing/multispectral image processing. Deadline Mar 29, 2026. my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

POST-DOC! 3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history Department of Politics & International Studies University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

#jobklaxon Lecturer in #digitalhumanities Application Deadline: 29.03.2026 Very sensible language policy, B1 after 2 years and B2 after five years. Maybe of interest to the members of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social

Lecturer in Medieval and Early Modern History, ANU #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/lecture...

This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️ www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...

I couldn’t love this more…

What do you do with eight cases of Baskerville font punches?! Have lots of digital letter fun of course! There's even RTI and 3D Models to play with ... cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

I’m giving a talk @thelondonarchives.bsky.social on April 29th! 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-and-...

Sometimes I too feel ‘misbound but perfect’, Francis Jenkinson. Written in a copy of Gaspar Ens’s book on Dutch discoveries in the New World (Cologne, 1612). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social N*.5.51(G).

New Morgan Exhibition Explores the History of Storytelling www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...